captioning sponsored by cbs ♪ >> brennan: breaking news tonight: president-elect joe biden pledges to vaccinate one million americans a day, saying he'll use the federal government to accelerate the rollout of coronavirus shots. mr. biden's warning tonight: the toughest days of the pandemic are ahead as he accuses the trump administration of falling behind. in florida, long lines as seniors wait to get their shots. and the warning from experts: at this pace, vaccinating most americans could take years. so, what's causing the delays? out of control: more than a million americans infected in just one week as a new strain of the virus is detected in the u.s. and with hospitalizations in the u.s. at an all-time high, the

overwhelmed hospital treating patients in the gift shop. locking down: california extends its stay-at-home orders and l.a. county ramps up restrictions after cases there skyrocket nearly 1,000%. will movies and tv shows be forced to shut down? checks and balances: president trump lashes out at members of his party for refusing to back his stimulus plan. what he's calling republicans who don't support his push to send $2,000 checks to americans. double trouble: one-third of the country now in the path of two major storm systems. will you be ringing in the new year with snow, ice, and rain? profiling the bomber: chilling new video and new details about the nashville bombing. ( explosion ) why the f.b.i. is using profilers to dig in to the suspect's past. and meet the mask maker, the artist bringing smiles to faces

even when they're all covered up. >> this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting from the nation's capital. >> brennan: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. norah is off. i'm margaret brennan. we're going to begin tonight with some breaking news. president-elect joe biden says the white house's rollout of the coronavirus vaccine is falling far behind, and he's promising to use the federal government to make sure a million americans get the shot each day during his first 100 days in office. mr. biden's criticism of the trump administration's vaccination program comes after several prominent public health experts, including dr. anthony fauci, voiced concerns today about distribution delays. the c.d.c. says only about 2.1 million americans have gotten the vaccine even though the trump administration had promised 20 million would get it by the end of the month. and those shots are desperately needed because the rate of new cases nationwide continues to skyrocket.

over a million americans have been infected with the virus in just the last week, with hospitalizations nationwide tonight smashing records, too. in parts of california, where cases in some areas have exploded nearly 1,000%, there are new lockdowns this evening. and as we come on the air, there is now growing concern that a new and potentially more contagious strain of the virus is spreading in the u.s. after officials in colorado confirmed tonight a man in his 20s tested positive for it. so, we have a lot of new reporting for you and your family, and our team of correspondents is standing by to cover it all. cbs' meg oliver leads us off in new york city. good evening, meg. >> reporter: mar >> reporter: margaret, good evening. with just two days left in 2020, just over half the number of doses the trump administration said would arrive by the end of the year have shipped, something president-elect joe biden vows to change. >> this is going to be the greatest operational challenge

we've ever faced as a nation. reporter: president-electct biden says his incoming biden says his incoming administration will move heaven and earth to get the vaccination effort back on track. >> it will take ramping up to one million shots a day. >> reporter: biden gave few details about how his administration will hit that mark, but said he will invoke the defense production act to accelerate needed supplies for vaccines. he called the recently passed $900 billion covid relief bill a down payment for controlling the pandemic. earlier today, vice president- elect kamala harris received her shot... uscheers and applause ) ...as thousands of vulnerable senior citizens lined up across florida, some waiting overnight, hoping to secure a coveted covid vaccine. >> you know, this is a life-or- death vaccine. >> reporter: but there are not enough vaccines for everyone in line in lee county, which was at e lucky. by 7:00 a.m. >> just need a the conways were lucky. >> just need a date of when we come back. we haven't got that yet, so they're not quite organized with

the next shot. >> it's incredibly frustrating. 10 months into this pandemic, we're still talking about the basics of how do we get vaccines into people's arms. >> reporter: why aren't more people getting vaccinated? >> there isn't a well- coordinated, thoughtful plan for how we're going to vaccinate the american people. >> reporter: distribution plans and execution faulted already strapped public health departments. the new covid the new covid relief bill has $8.75 billion allocated for vaccination distribution, including $4.5 billion for states. but it will take time to distribute that money, delaying vital outreach campaigns. when are we going to finally be able to possibly secure herd immunity and get back to our old lives? >> yeah, if we continue on our current pace, it's going to take us years to get everybody vaccinated. >> reporter: tonight, one hospital told me they did receive enough vaccinations for the month of december, but that's only because the state intervened to make sure they also received moderna's vaccines to make up for pfizer's

shortfall-- just one more piece of this complicated vaccination effort. margaret. >> brennan: meg oliver, thank king news on a new strain of now to that breaking news on a new strain of coronavirus that has been spreading overseas. tonight, officials in colorado say they've confirmed the first known case in the u.s. after a man in his 20s tested positive. doctors in england, where it was first found, say the new variant is significantly more contagious coan the current strain. and dr. anthony fauci says it is likely already spreading here, putting more pressure on health systems, especially in places like california, which are already overwhelmed. here's cbs' carter evans. >> feel a little short of breath? >> reporter: life at the epicenter. los angeles county under strict stay-at-home orders with daily deaths up 600%, new covid cases ients are being cared forvember. and tre >> patients are being cared for and treated in the ambulances as if it's part of the emergency

room. as bad as it is, the worst is almost certainly yet to come. >> well, we're a 131-bed hospital that started the day with 224 patients. >> reporter: with its gift shop and chapel now filled with hospital beds, martin luther king junior medical center is in full-scale crisis mode. how does that look at this hospital? >> rationing care among all hospitals looks very much like what happens on a battlefield during a war. >> reporter: another southern california hospital is also preparing an emergency plan for rationing care, insisting it will not put the burden on frontline workers. a bioethicist,ittee that includes doctors, a bioethicist, and a spiritual care provider will decide who gets potentially life-saving treatment. l.a. county is now requiring anyone traveling here to quarantine for at least 10 days, and the county's also urging hollywood studios to hit pause on productions. nationwide, back-to-back holiday gatherings are leading to

record-breaking surges, with new year's eve just two days away. >> which could make january even worse than december. i hope not. >> reporter: in holyoke, massachusetts, joy amid the heartbreak inside the soldiers' home where 77 residents have died from covid. today, the first vaccines were given. ( applause ) this used to be the ambulance bay at m.l.k. hospital. now there's a triage tent here. behind that, there is another tent full of covid patients just waiting for beds. but it's not just beds that are full; the morgue is, too. that's why they've got a refrigerated truck out back and another on the way. margaret. >> brennan: carter evans in los angeles. in nashville, four days after that devastating bombing, residents and business owners were allowed back inside that heavily damaged neighborhood today. meanwhile, investigators are zeroing in on the bomber's motives. here's cbs' mola lenghi. ( explosion ) >> reporter: nashville police

body cam footage released late last night shows the dramatic aftermath of the christmas day blast. today, some of those evacuees were escorted back to the scene to survey the damage... >> sweet and sad, all at the same time. >> reporter: ...including noelle and jeffrey rasmussen, who shot this video. you're going to go back and see your kids now. what do you tell them? >> i've really been struggling with what to tell my four-year- old. it was a really striking picture of our window blown out, and our christmas tree still standing there. >> reporter: f.b.i. and a.t.f. response teams continue to recover evidence at the bomb scene, hoping to figure out why 63-year-old anthony warner blew up his r.v. ( explosion ) >> oh, my gosh. >> reporter: noelle, jeffrey, and their two kids ran to safety early friday morning, capturing this video shortly after police knocked on their door and told

them to get out. seeing the impact of the blast for the first time, jeffrey and noelle say they cannot believe more people weren't hurt or even killed. >> we don't know where we're going to live. we don't know what we're going to do. our whole life is surrounded by bomb wreckage. it was hard to see. >> reporter: well, authorities say, prior to this, warner didn't have much of a criticism history, just a marijuana- related charge back in 1978. investigators say there are also no signs of any sort of political ideology behind this bombing. s ill, the f.b.i. has brought in profilers to interview people who knew warner, to try to get inside his mind and hopefully get closer to a motive. margaret. >> bre >> brennan: mola lenghi, thank you. tonight, president trump is stepping up his attacks on republicans who oppose his calls for increased stimulus checks. here's cbs' paula reid. >> reporter: from his holiday post in palm beach, president trump today tearing into congressional republicans, calling leaders "pathetic" for

not backing his baseless voter fraud claims and saying that unless they have a "death wish," they should approve $2,000 stimulus checks. that puts the president more in line with democrats, who tried to force a vote on the new direct payments today already passed by the democratic- controlled house. >> there's one question left today: do senate republicans join with the rest of america in supporting $2,000 checks? >> reporter: today, that answer was no. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell blocked the democratic effort, speaking for most republicans who don't want to spend additional money on stimulus. it, includingow suggesting they'd support it, including both georgia republicans looking for an edge ahead of a tough senate runoff election scheduled for next tuesday. >> i'm delighted to support the president in this $2,000. >> reporter: the president is also furious at hou also furious at house republicans, many of whom voted last night to override his veto

of a sweeping annual defense bill. the senate is expected to do te same this week, but, today, senator bernie sanders said he'd block that vote until mcconnell allows a vote on stimulus checks. >> working families need help now-- not next year, but right ader >> reporter: majority leader mcconnell signaled he may be willing to bring those checks up for a vote, but he tied them to two of the president's other priorities: curtailing protections for social media er fraies and investigating allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election. if you tie those two issues to the checks, they're unlikely to pass. margaret. >> brennan: and tonight, the trump administration saying those smaller $600 payments might be received as soon as this week. thank you, paula. ere weather.rack to go out with two major storm a blast of severe weather. two major storms will bear down on a third of the country. parts of i-80 in nebraska were

shut down today as heavy snowfall made for dangerous driving conditions. that system's heading east, which may mean a treacherous new year's eve year's eve. cbs' lonnie quinn has the details. lonnie. >> okay, margaret, the snow you just showed us in nebraska, that video is from earlier in the day because right now, chicago is being impacted by snow. this will end up being chicago's first significant snowfall of the season. the question becomes, what happens tomorrow? tomorrow night around this time, where is it going? well, it becomes mostly rain going through the midwest. but follow that trail of precipitation all the way down into texas, and texas will be dealing with some snow! and then, by the time you get to new year's eve, portions of texas still having some snow. everybody else, for the most part, it's rain. and around portions of louisiana, mississippi, alabama, wherever you see that flashy yellow, there could be some severe weather. and that severe weather chance olinas into the carolinas on new on new yea year's day. and for the carolinas, again, it's a risk for tornadoes, believe it or not. it's very wet up throughout the northeast. and as you push well north,

that's where you're going to find some icy snow. i do want to recap how we see this working out for new year's new year's there's a line of precipitation from maine to texas. snow for maine, snow for texas. everyone else, for the most part, it looks to be a stormy and wet new year's eve. margaret. >> brennan: well, we're spending it at home anyway, lonnie. >> there you go, stay home. >> brennan: thank you very much, lonnie. the justice department says it wo closing the case against two cleveland policemen involved in the shooting of a black child in 2014. 12-year-old tamir rice was playing with a toy gun when officers shot him and killed him, saying they mistook the toy for a real gun. police say video of the shooting was not clear enough to bring charges. in columbus, ohio, tonight, there are troubling new details about the deadly police shooting of andre hill. newly released records show that one police officer at the scene atd not perceive hill as a threat before a fellow officer whnned him down.

the officer who fired the fatal shot has lost his job. here's cbs' jeff pegues. >> get your hands up from underneath now! >> reporter: officer adam coy was not alone the night he shot and killed andre hill. >> get me support. >> reporter: also responding to the non-emergency call was officer amy detweiler. according to her interview with internal affairs investigators, she and officer coy both had their service weapons drawn. but in contrast to coy, she did not observe any threats from hill, did not see a weapon. but she did hear coy yell, "there's a gun in his other hand! there's a gun in his other hand!" then, she heard gunfire. her testimony will be critical going forward. to has been fired, but there are calls for him to be arrested and charged. the body camera's automatic record feature captured video of the shooting but not the audio as coy approached hill who was holding a cell phone in his left hand. you can't hear the audio until

coy turns the body camera on. >> hands off to the side, now! >> reporter: coy's attorney says he is hopeful that his client will get a fair and thorough investigation. >> i feel like if that cop would have gave my dad a chance, he'd still be here. >> reporter: andre hill's daughter, karissa, is simply hoping for justice. jeff pegues, cbs news, washington. >> brennan: there is much more ahead on tonight's "cbs evening news." a woman who falsely accused a black teenager of stealing her cell phone could now face serious charges. and baby archie speaks: his first public comments captured in a royal podcast. cast. this is purina pro plan liveclear. one of the worst things about a cois how it can make you feel. but, when used at the first sign,

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>> bre >> brennan: tonight, new york city police are searching for a woman who falsely accused a black teenager of theft. that woman was caught on camera at a new york hotel saturday accusing the teenage son of jazz musician keyon harrold of stealing her iphone. it was later found by an uber driver, and police say the woman could now face charges, including assault. boeing's troubled 737 max returned to the skies today, carrying u.s. passengers for the first time in nearly two years. the max was grounded in 2019 following a pair of deadly crashes. prince harry and meghan markle's

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>> brennan: author marty rubin once wrote, "behind every mask there's a face, and behind that, a story." well, behind many masks in decatur, georgia, there's an artist and a smile. here's cbs' mark strassmann. >> reporter: nobody likes wearing masks. we do it because we should. and in decatur, georgia, it's the law. >> no, masks are never fun. >> reporter: until now. meet huckleberry starnes, a good guy with a great name and a product designer who got the it.k laugh." >> everyone comments on it. you're really excited to wear it more. >> reporter: his custom masks highlight personalities rather

than hide faces, and, as a public service, he's made hundreds of them, like the one joe jamison is wearing. ma ( laughs ) it makes me feel like i'm always smile. >> reporter: this decatur cop had to shave off his signature mustache. no mask would fit over it. >> when i put the mask on, i have the mustache. so, it gives me that option. >> when i saw his mask, i thought it was the coolest thing i'd ever seen. >> reporter: sergeant kimberly parks, jamison's boss, got back her signature smile. this mask gives you back... >> my personality, yeah. >> reporter: unlike a standard w rgical mask like mine. how would you describe its fun factor? >> yeah, not very fun. i went ahead and put this together for you so that you can coar this when you're out. >> reporter: this comes off for a second. this comes on. better? better? >> yeah, i think so. ( laughs ) >> reporter: i mean, my kids are going to laugh at me, but it is fun. finally, a mask to put a smile on anyone's face.

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